New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PETROLEUM (ONSHORE) ACT 1991 - SECT 47

47 Application of epis

(1) If a person is authorised under this Act to carry out operations authorised under a petroleum title other than a production lease:

(a) nothing in, or done under, an environmental planning instrument operates so as to prevent the holder of the title carrying out any such operations on the land comprised in the title, and

(b) to the extent to which anything in, or done under, any such instrument would so operate, it is of no effect in relation to the holder.

(2) A reference in this section to an environmental planning instrument does not include a reference to a State environmental planning policy made on or after the commencement of this subsection.